HAITI: COOK BOOKS FOR SALE

List as of January 17, 2008

Bob Corbett 1419 Tamm Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63139
(314) 647-6704

If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact me

BOOKS READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY.

Shipping is $3.00 for the first book and $.50 for each additional book, book rate. There will also be a 75 cent charge for each mailing for delivery confirmation. Insurance or priority shipping are extra, please ask. Delivery outside the U.S. will be arranged. A number of the art cooks are quite heavy and can't be shipped for the $3.00 normal fee. If books are heavy I will have to charge extra shipping.

• Anon    MOUNTAIN MAID BEST MADE   . Waverly, IA, G & R Publishing Co. Perhaps the best know of Haitian Cookbooks. Spiral binding to open flat on table. From soup jamou to mango chutney, filled with attractive recipies. Very fine condition.
  • $20.00
  
  
  
• Anon (1996).    OPERATION GREEN LEAVES: REFORESTATION OF HAITI   . Audubon, Iowa, Jumbo Jack's Cookbooks. Cute format. A three ring binder 8.5 x 7.5 inches. Tabs for various categories. Bean sausages caught my eye and I'm always in for griyo, but peanut-fruit sauce... just doesn't grab me. Nice book in very good condition.
  • $21.00
  
  
  
• Betterdorf Christian, C. (1998).    RECIPES FROM THE HEART   . Bettendorf, Iowa, Morris Press. Spiral binding, 74 pages, plus another dozen or more of food measurements and such. Book seems not to be of Haitian cooking, but a cook book of people's favorite recipies and done as a fund-raiser for Haiti.
  • $6.00
  
  
  
• Hamelecourt, J. (1980).    CARIBBEAN COOKBOOK   . Melrose Park, IL, Delair Publishing Company. 8.5x10 inche hard bound book with mouth-watering meal on cover. Meatballs a Haitienne is one of the featured recipies, but mainly it focuses not on a particular country, but on general Caribbean foods and styles of preparation. Very nice book.
  • $18.00
  
  
  
• Menager, M. C. (2005).    FINE HAITIAN CUISINE: A BROAD COLLECTION OF HAITIAN RECIPES   . Coconut Creek, Fl., Educa Vision, Inc. This is a HUGE book. 8.5x11 inches and wopping 448 pages. Some lovely tips on the foods and how to prepare them with some b/w photos to illustrate. There are also color photos to show how the foods should be presented on the plate. Mouth-watering recipies and photos.
  • Hard bound $65.00
  • Paper bound $60.00
  
  
  
• Ortiz, E. L. (1973).    THE COMPLETE BOOK OF CARIBBEAN COOKING   . New York, M. Evans and Company, Inc. "Complete book" of anything is rather ambitious. However, this 437 page volume with a fairly long index, makes a serious effort. Recipies are not separated out by country, but all are Caribbean in ingredients, names and flair. Hard bound book in good condition.
  • $22.00
  
  
  
• Parker, L.    MOUNTAIN FAITH MISSION: LENDING A HELPING HAND   . Mirebalais, Haiti. This is a fund raising cook-book not of Haiti or Caribbean cuisine, but local favorites of the people in Iowa who are funding some work in Haiti. Spirial binding to lay flat on table. Very good condition.
  • $6.00
  
  
  
• Stewart, J. (1980).    HAITI: VIVID AND SPIRITED, HAITI STILL CASTS ITS OWN MAGIC SPELL   This is a magazine article disbound from the magazine itself. Lots of brilliant color photos taken by the author. Seems to be 9 pages long and features recipies from the Mont Joli Hotel in Cap Haitian.
  • $7.00
  
  
  
• The American Home Economics Association, e. (1951).    THE WORLD'S FAVORITE RECIPIES FROM THE UNITED NATIONS   . New York, Harper and Brothers, Publishers. Recipies in this paper bound book are done by country. Many countries represented including Haiti. Just a few recipies for each country, but lots of fascinating variety. Paper bound.
  • $13.00
  
  
  
• Time, L. (1970).    RECIPES: THE COOKING OF THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS   . New York, Time-Life Books. Spiral bound to open flat on a table. Recipies are not separated specifically by country, but DEFINITELY a total Caribbean flair to all recipies. 143 pages. Good condition.
  • $9.00
  
  
  
• Valldejuli, C. A. (1957).    THE ART OF CARIBBEAN COOKERY   . Garden City, NY, Doubleday and Co. Hard bound volume in original dust jacket. 254 pages. Not specifically Haiti. But, lots of good material on Caribbean modes of cooking. Good condition.
  • $9.00
  
  
  
• Yurnet-Thomas, M.(1976).    A TASTE OF HAITI    New York: Hippocrene Books, 2002. Hard copy book in original colorful dust jacket. Book is like new. 215 pages with index. Very useful glossary at the outset that tells you what the various foods ARE. Very nice recipies of wonderful dishes. Lovely book.
  • $28.00
  
  
  

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